As soon as his cab arrived in an Islamic State safe house in December 2015, his lawyers say, Mohamad Khweis realized he had made a huge mistake. The 27-year-old Fairfax County, Virginia, native fled the group three months later and ...

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An ex-convict who plotted a foiled New Year’s Eve machete attack at a Rochester restaurant in the name of the Islamic State group was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison, provoking a courtroom outburst in which he shouted “there’s ...

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Two notable criminal cases are on the calendar for federal court in Rochester later this week. On Thursday, convicted terrorist sympathizer Emanuel Lutchman is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci Jr. And on Friday, ...

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In June, a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a horrific spate of violence at a gay nightclub in Orlando. Now, the families of some of the victims are suing Google, Twitter and Facebook over their role ...

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WASHINGTON — The Paris attacks have given new impetus to a bipartisan push to approve new war powers to fight Islamic State militants, with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday joining Republican and Democratic lawmakers in calling for ...

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BUFFALO — A judge has denied bail for a western New York man accused of attempting to support terrorism by buying combat gear, making overseas trips and declaring his allegiance online to the Islamic State group. A federal judge on ...

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BUFFALO (AP) — A western New York man traveled overseas in a bid to join the Islamic State group after buying night-vision goggles, a machete and body armor and pledging his loyalty to the militant organization on Twitter, federal authorities ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Two men arrested on charges of plotting to help the Islamic State group were vocal both online and in personal conversations about their commitment and desire to join the extremists, with one of them speaking of ...

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A man accused of plotting to kill members of the U.S. military and others pleaded not guilty Thursday to new federal charges that he tried to aid the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq. Mufid Elfgeeh, 30, entered the ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand says it’s critically important that the United States strongly confront the insurgent Islamic State organization. The New York Democrat tells MSNBC she knows that won’t be easy. Gillibrand, a member of the Senate Armed ...

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